Apr 10, Cleland Wildlife Park, Adelaide

We drove up to the summit of Mt Lofty and close to it was the Cleland Wildlife Park. When I got out of the camper I dropped my camera and it stopped working properly. Now, I can't download pictures to the iPad. We can still use Samson's big camera, but the memory card won't fit in the card reader I have. There's an Apple store in Adelaide, so we'll check it tomorrow.

At the park we saw lots and lots of kangaroos and wallabies. What's the difference? Well, one difference between them is size. Wallabies are smaller, generally only reaching 2ft in height and kangaroos can get up to 8ft tall. If you can get a look at their teeth, you will see another difference. Wallabies eat leaves and don't need to tear things, so most of their teeth are flat for grinding with one cutting tooth. Kangaroos need to tear grass, so they have tearing and cutting teeth.

There were red and grey kangaroos, yellow-footed swamp and red necked wallabies all in big enclosures that people could walk in and feed the animals. We saw an echidna, a sleeping wombat (they had put a window in the burrow), Tasmanian Devils, monitors and dingoes. There was an enclosure for emus that you could walk through and they seemed much tamer than those we saw at Tower Hill. There were aviaries for bush birds, swamp birds, birds of the forest, and a wetlands filled with birds. It was a large wildlife park with very large enclosures and a wide variety of animals. Because people are allowed to feed them, the animals didn't seem as wild and they would come up to you, looking for food.

From there we drove into Adelaide to the home of Anna Muller, Hester Muller's sister. Anna was at work, but her nephew, Stuart, welcomed us and kept us company until she arrived. We caught Anna during a busy week, but she graciously invited us to stay with her so we could have a little break from the rv. She also offered the use of her washer and dryer and I spent the afternoon doing laundry. The motorhome is parked in front of Anna's house.

Was able to download pictures from Samson's camera with a new USB connector for the iPad. When I damaged my camera I also lost the sun filter for his camera and the viewfinder stopped working. It still has the panel to look at, but it's hard to see in the sunlight. So we're limping along with one camera.

Pictures - Samson with wallabies, Frogmouth birds that look like little stumps, Map of the 5400km dingo fence that stretches across the country to keep dingoes out of the areas where sheep and cattle are raised